AsianPersuasion
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Who do you think you are!
I’ve had client after client from HELL and it’s just doing my head in. Their demands, their ridiculousness, selfishness and on top of it all, their complete and utter incompetence … absolutely blows my mind. Only people in the media industry can understand what I’m talking about here…unless there are idiots in every industry? I would LOVE to go into detail… but, it might take too long.
I just finished producing a new documentary and I really feel like I need a break from my traumatic production experiences. Doing this project made me really question what I’m doing in this business… I don’t know if I want to go though this kind of crap over and over again. I don’t think my heart and my body can take it anymore. I’m surprised I didn’t have a nervous breakdown over the last few months.
I’m trying to figure this out…Is it Asian culture? Is it the whole, you’re younger than I am thing? I have no idea. But what is up with clients holier than thou attitude?
What is it that makes them feel like they can keep you waiting around for them for hours, or talk to you disrespectfully, demand the impossible, and be completely ungrateful for your time and effort? And at the end of the day, when they see the final product… they take credit for it?!!!! I think it might be… an Asian mentality which states, “if I pay…it’s whatever I SAY!” Which I think is absolute nonsense.
I think it’s completely out of order, client or not, money or no money… for a client to have DIVA demands. I mean, if I wanted to deal with hellish demands like from Mariah Carey or Jennifer Lopez, then I’d just fly off to Hollywood to get some MAJOR attitude from there… but then again, why would I need to go that far for attitude, when I can get it right here in my homeland… from normal people!? They’re not even celebrities!
Right now, I want to be a bloody client… or a beach bum. Whichever comes first.
